Month: January 2016

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The federal government’s dietary guidelines, updated every five years, just received its regularly scheduled refresh.

The big takeaways largely stand in the revised version, released jointly Thursday by the Agriculture and Health and Human Services Departments. Generally, people should load their diet with “vegetables, fruits, grains, low-fat and fat-free dairy, lean meats and other protein foods and oils, while limiting saturated fats, trans fats, added sugars and sodium.”

But there are some interesting changes to chew on, too. These include a notable ditching of a specific limit on cholesterol—what some might say is a win for the egg industry (and egg lovers)—plus sterner warnings about added sugar in the diet. For the first time, the guidelines also call out adolescent and adult males for eating too much protein and give a definitive nod of approval to moderate coffee drinking— that is, three-to-five 8-ounce cups a day.

T-Mobile CEO John Legere. (credit: T-Mobile)

T-Mobile USA will soon meet with the Federal Communications Commission about whether its controversial “Binge On” program violates network neutrality rules. But even though T-Mobile is throttling video—and the rules ban throttling—the carrier might be able to convince the FCC that an exception should be made.

The rules—which face a court challenge from a wireless industry trade group that T-Mobile belongs to—say that Internet providers including mobile carriers “shall not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, or use of a non-harmful device, subject to reasonable network management.”

Binge On throttles content based on its type, forcing a downgrade of all video to lower resolution. That’s a clear violation, right? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that it is, saying that “throttling all traffic based on application type… obviously violates the FCC’s Open Internet Order.”

Google Translate has been making some rather unflattering conversions when going from Ukrainian to Russian. "Russia" became "Mordor," "Russians" became "occupiers," and Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, became "sad little horse."

Mordor is, of course, a fictional land from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series.

Screenshots of the bad translations were captured and passed around Russian social media site VKontakte.